(western) classical music discussion

[pocaracas]

I can't use any recognizable piece of music as a ringtone... I get lost listening to the music and forget there's someone waiting for me to pick up the phone!

Even so, when my dad calls, I have the Super mario Bros tune, when the wife calls, I have the Universal fanfare sung by the Minions... everyone else gets some default loud electronic phone ring.
Notifications can either have a loud gong, or

ST-TNG's door chime:
http://www.trekcore.com/audio/doors/tng_chime_clean.mp3

, or even the communicator chirp:
http://www.trekcore.com/audio/communicat..._clean.mp3

[bennyboy]

checked with some contemporary music and chose Guns n' Roses Welcome to the Jungle and you can just about hear Axel Rose singing in the background. It's like only the left or right channel is being played but is fed into both ear pieces in mono.

It seems your problem is solved, but I wanted to say something about this. Sometimes the L/R channels are inverted or phased or whatever, so left and right sounds cancel each other out, and in this case the problem is usually a short between the two channels.

[I_am_not_mafia]

Need your opinions on this!

So what was David Cameron actually humming?

My personal opinion is Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande. I've been listening to that a lot recently, just today in fact and those few notes are very distinctive and are a recurring theme throughout the whole piece.

But it could also be the beginning few bars of Shostakovitch's fifth, by far his most famous symphony. But it's only really used in the beginning IIRC.

[I_am_not_mafia]

checked with some contemporary music and chose Guns n' Roses Welcome to the Jungle and you can just about hear Axel Rose singing in the background. It's like only the left or right channel is being played but is fed into both ear pieces in mono.

It seems your problem is solved, but I wanted to say something about this.  Sometimes the L/R channels are inverted or phased or whatever, so left and right sounds cancel each other out, and in this case the problem is usually a short between the two channels.

Thanks. That was probably what caused it because a wire was loose. The two contacts are very close together. It would explain a lot.

[Minimalist]

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[Edwardo Piet]

This is my kind of classical music! When electronica meets classical!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML6BKKzi0qo

[I_am_not_mafia]

For a long time now I've been struggling to find any new composers for many years now but I've struck a rich vein that I am exploring. And it's not Russian either!

I've started listening to composers from the 20th Century. I was always sceptical of Arnold Berg because the one piece I had was his famous Violin concerto and it sounded discordant for the sake of it. But I realised, I just find the piece too depressing rather than discordant. And I had never really given Schoenberg a proper go. But I've really started to listen to Schoenberg a lot more and especially Bartok, I've bought Messiaen's turangalila symphony and next will buy some Schnittke. I first heard about Bartok on researching Shostokovich's string quartets. And after listening to Bartok's string quartets I decided to try the rest of his music. I'm so glad that I did.

It's not the easiest music to listen to but it's complex enough to stay interesting.

Which has come at just the right time because the person next to me at work chews gum all day with his mouse open and I need to listen to my music in order to drown out his incessant sucking noises.

Oddly enough I've also really got into Rage against the Machine's first album. I bought it when I was a Heavy Metaller growing bored of the genre, starting to mellow out as a person and first started developing a taste for Classical. I had never really liked RATM. But now the leftist revolutionary anger really appeals to me yet I haven't really been listening to any heavy rock for the last two decades. Very strange.

[Alex K]

This is my kind of classical music! When electronica meets classical!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML6BKKzi0qo

The classical element mainly seems to be the repeating violin notes. I wouldn't call it classical music because I miss the structure, presentation of themes and their variation or something similar. The string part would probably fall in line with what is sometimes called minimalist music. Not to be confused with our Minimalist, who I strongly suspect hates minimalist music

[Alex K]

Damn, the intro and beginning to BWV 43 is something else...

One can never have too much Herreweghe. I'm always torn who my favorite Bach interpreter is, him or Gardiner.

[bennyboy]

This is my kind of classical music! When electronica meets classical!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML6BKKzi0qo

The classical element mainly seems to be the repeating violin notes. I wouldn't call it classical music because I miss the structure, presentation of themes and their variation or something similar. The string part would probably fall in line with what is sometimes called minimalist music. Not to be confused with our Minimalist, who I strongly suspect hates minimalist music

This is semantics to a degree.  Many people think of any orchestral western art music as "classical," as in: "Oh, I like Mozart well enough, but this NEW classical music is quite boring."  Certainly, most of Bach cannot be considered classical: it is far too ornamented and showy: virtuosic harpsichord solos and the like (gasp!), and with a much more fluid tonality than Mozart.